mABC: Multi-Agent Blockchain-inspired Collaboration for Root Cause Analysis in Micro-Services Architecture (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Wei Zhang, Hongcheng Guo, Jian Yang, Zhoujin Tian, Yi Zhang, Yan Chaoran, Zhoujun Li, Tongliang Li, Xu Shi, Liangfan Zheng, Bo Zhang
| Challenge: | Root cause analysis (RCA) in Micro-services architectures with escalating complexity is challenging due to fault propagation and circular dependencies among nodes. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework where multiple agents follow Agent Workflow and collaborate in blockchain-inspired voting to ensure the reliability of root cause analysis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces the number of steps and standardizes task processing through Agent Workflow. |
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